Sorry this is a really long email, but this week has just been incredible!! We have seen so many miracles and have seen the Lords had in many different ways. We met with one of our investigators, Judy frendo, (eternigator of 12 years) and she is an amazing woman. She has such wonderful stories about how Christ has helped her but she says she struggles to feel Gods love. She has an addiction to tea and doesn't feel like she can overcome that because it causes her to be in a lot of pain (headaches, migraines, body aches, etc) and because of her low tolerance for pain, she has no motivation to obstain from it. We testified to her that as she tries to follow and keep the word of wisdom that she will be able to feel the love of God and be able to overcome her addiction to tea! She needs to have faith that God can help her and then run with it until she has conquered her addiction. We can all apply this same lesson. We all have within us, something that we need to work on or an area of our lives that we can improve on. I challenge everyone his week to raise the bar, allow yourself to change and allow yourself to feel an increase in love from God as we rely on Him to help us get through our trials.
Each night after dinner we do what is called "power hour" with the family we ate with. Power hour is when we all combine our faith and pray for miracles to happen as we go out contacting or teaching lessons after dinner. We have done this for the last 25 nights and we have seen SO many miracles.
Monday night we ate with the ward mission leaders family, sister Kroes prayed that we would be able to see miracles and find those people who were willing to listen, and that wanted to learn more. We all put our faith together and headed out for the night to find and teach. We were knocking apartment buildings and the first few people we came in contact with were nice, but they weren't interested. On about the 7th house, this man named William Flint opened the door. He was so sweet to us (a miracle already) and we told him that we wanted to share a Message about the restored gospel and about how families can be together forever. He told us that both of his parents had passed away and that it was just him now. We invited him to church on Sunday and offered a ward member to pick him up if he was interested in coming. He said, "I'd love too!" I was shocked. We've never had someone be so willing to come to church during the first contact with them. We exchanged numbers and continued knocking. 8:45 came around and we decided to head back to the car so we could make it back by 9 to our apartment. As we were walking back. This man approached us from the dark and said "hey you." I couldn't really see the face, but he seemed nice so I said "hi!" He said, "it's William!" He told us that he tried to call us just to verify the number we gave him but it didn't go through. He showed us the number he dialed and we realized he put in a wrong number. We corrected it in his phone and then he said , "I had to check and make sure the number was right so I can come to church on Sunday. After the line didn't ring through I had a feeling to come outside and that I would be able to find you, and I did!" The Lord is already preparing him :)
On Tuesday we had all of our lessons fall through, and we also had two dinner appointments. Our first dinner was with this Family from Thialand! The Mackleys! They cooked us thia food (dad you would have loved this so much! I tried to get the recipes but it didn't work. Shucks!) they actually know the bunkers that live 1/2 the year in AZ! Haha sister agura was like "wow, from out of the country and you're still making connections!" The elders roll their eyes every time I make another connection at dinner. Haha. Because I always know SOMEBODY each night at dinner that we can find in common with our dinner appt family. :) Then we headed off to our 2nd dinner- phillipeano food. It was interesting, but at this point I was also ready so full and couldn't eat anymore. The lady kept pulling out more food and more food. I took little bites and did the whole 'take a bite, drink juice, and swallow it all together' thing that my dad taught me about from when he went on a mission. Bingo! It worked. After the 2nd dinner we went out for power hour and saw another miracle! We were able to meet this man named Cody, about 20 years old. He was so curious about the church and about us being on a mission, and about the ysa ward! We got to talk with him for about an hour and he said he wants to come to church! He gave us his address and phone number and we are so excited! Unfortunately since we are not over the ysa ward we don't get to teach him, but it's still a miracle because the elders in the ysa ward have no investigators so the fact that we were able to find a potential for them is exciting! We were so excited to call the singles ward elders (Mallory and bowler) & tell them we found a potential investigator for them! :)
Wednesday all of our appointment fell through but we were able to randomly show up at less actives homes and have doorstep lessons! It was awesome! Along with all of our schedule appointments falling through, our dinner did as well. We showed up and they had forgotten and weren't home. But it rained most of the day on Wednesday so I was happy!!!! :)
Every Thursday we go and visit this sweet lady in our ward. Her name is Pat Vandelaar. She is older (74) has a fractured food, bad shoulder, and possibly a lump in her breast. Because of her health she cannot make it to church so we share a spiritual message with her each Thursday. It has become the highlight of my week. She has no children, her husband died in 2000, and she is an only child and I think her husband was as well. It's so sad. But she loves us and we love visiting her. It rained/sprinkled all morning and afternoon and we got to tract in the rain!!!!! It made me happy! Our lesson on Thursday with our eternigator, Judy frendo, fell through. We found out that she fell Wednesday and broke her spine and then fell again Thursday and broke her wrist, on top of the immense amount of pain that she's already in from her bad back that she just got 12 or 13 pins in 2 weeks ago.
Friday my companion had a meeting in Santa Rosa with all the other STLs and zone leaders so I got to be in a Trio. I think I prefer just two missionaries in a companionship instead ;)
Saturday we got the amazing opportunity to watch the General Women's Broadcast and it was AWESOME! The spirit was so strong and testified to me the importance of sharing with others that we ARE daughters and children of God.
Sunday WE HAD A NEW INVESTIGATOR COME TO CHURCH! William followed through with his commitment to come to church! Lucky for us it was fast and testimony meeting and all the primary children got up and shared how they know the church is true and that prophets are called of God and that the Book of Mormon is the word of God!!!!! So tender. He said he loved it and we are excited for us to teach him about the restoration later tonight!
Each night after dinner we do what is called "power hour" with the family we ate with. Power hour is when we all combine our faith and pray for miracles to happen as we go out contacting or teaching lessons after dinner. We have done this for the last 25 nights and we have seen SO many miracles.
Monday night we ate with the ward mission leaders family, sister Kroes prayed that we would be able to see miracles and find those people who were willing to listen, and that wanted to learn more. We all put our faith together and headed out for the night to find and teach. We were knocking apartment buildings and the first few people we came in contact with were nice, but they weren't interested. On about the 7th house, this man named William Flint opened the door. He was so sweet to us (a miracle already) and we told him that we wanted to share a Message about the restored gospel and about how families can be together forever. He told us that both of his parents had passed away and that it was just him now. We invited him to church on Sunday and offered a ward member to pick him up if he was interested in coming. He said, "I'd love too!" I was shocked. We've never had someone be so willing to come to church during the first contact with them. We exchanged numbers and continued knocking. 8:45 came around and we decided to head back to the car so we could make it back by 9 to our apartment. As we were walking back. This man approached us from the dark and said "hey you." I couldn't really see the face, but he seemed nice so I said "hi!" He said, "it's William!" He told us that he tried to call us just to verify the number we gave him but it didn't go through. He showed us the number he dialed and we realized he put in a wrong number. We corrected it in his phone and then he said , "I had to check and make sure the number was right so I can come to church on Sunday. After the line didn't ring through I had a feeling to come outside and that I would be able to find you, and I did!" The Lord is already preparing him :)
On Tuesday we had all of our lessons fall through, and we also had two dinner appointments. Our first dinner was with this Family from Thialand! The Mackleys! They cooked us thia food (dad you would have loved this so much! I tried to get the recipes but it didn't work. Shucks!) they actually know the bunkers that live 1/2 the year in AZ! Haha sister agura was like "wow, from out of the country and you're still making connections!" The elders roll their eyes every time I make another connection at dinner. Haha. Because I always know SOMEBODY each night at dinner that we can find in common with our dinner appt family. :) Then we headed off to our 2nd dinner- phillipeano food. It was interesting, but at this point I was also ready so full and couldn't eat anymore. The lady kept pulling out more food and more food. I took little bites and did the whole 'take a bite, drink juice, and swallow it all together' thing that my dad taught me about from when he went on a mission. Bingo! It worked. After the 2nd dinner we went out for power hour and saw another miracle! We were able to meet this man named Cody, about 20 years old. He was so curious about the church and about us being on a mission, and about the ysa ward! We got to talk with him for about an hour and he said he wants to come to church! He gave us his address and phone number and we are so excited! Unfortunately since we are not over the ysa ward we don't get to teach him, but it's still a miracle because the elders in the ysa ward have no investigators so the fact that we were able to find a potential for them is exciting! We were so excited to call the singles ward elders (Mallory and bowler) & tell them we found a potential investigator for them! :)
Wednesday all of our appointment fell through but we were able to randomly show up at less actives homes and have doorstep lessons! It was awesome! Along with all of our schedule appointments falling through, our dinner did as well. We showed up and they had forgotten and weren't home. But it rained most of the day on Wednesday so I was happy!!!! :)
Every Thursday we go and visit this sweet lady in our ward. Her name is Pat Vandelaar. She is older (74) has a fractured food, bad shoulder, and possibly a lump in her breast. Because of her health she cannot make it to church so we share a spiritual message with her each Thursday. It has become the highlight of my week. She has no children, her husband died in 2000, and she is an only child and I think her husband was as well. It's so sad. But she loves us and we love visiting her. It rained/sprinkled all morning and afternoon and we got to tract in the rain!!!!! It made me happy! Our lesson on Thursday with our eternigator, Judy frendo, fell through. We found out that she fell Wednesday and broke her spine and then fell again Thursday and broke her wrist, on top of the immense amount of pain that she's already in from her bad back that she just got 12 or 13 pins in 2 weeks ago.
Friday my companion had a meeting in Santa Rosa with all the other STLs and zone leaders so I got to be in a Trio. I think I prefer just two missionaries in a companionship instead ;)
Saturday we got the amazing opportunity to watch the General Women's Broadcast and it was AWESOME! The spirit was so strong and testified to me the importance of sharing with others that we ARE daughters and children of God.
Sunday WE HAD A NEW INVESTIGATOR COME TO CHURCH! William followed through with his commitment to come to church! Lucky for us it was fast and testimony meeting and all the primary children got up and shared how they know the church is true and that prophets are called of God and that the Book of Mormon is the word of God!!!!! So tender. He said he loved it and we are excited for us to teach him about the restoration later tonight!
I hope you all are doing GREAT!!!! Love and Miss everyone!!
Sister Peterson!
Sister Peterson!
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